Racism and Systematic Oppression

“You can’t be racist toward white people. Racism is based in systemic oppression and since there is no sociopolitical infrastructure working  against white people, white people can’t be affected by racism!”

This basically sums up the comments I have seen here lately. So if you believe the comment above you are lacking the understanding of exactly what systematic oppression and racism is. Yes, whether you want to believe it or not they have two different definitions. Systematic oppression occurs when established laws, customs, and practices systematically reflect and produce inequities based on one’s membership in targeted social identity groups. If oppressive consequences accrue to institutional laws, customs, or practices, the institution is oppressive whether or not the individuals maintaining those practices have oppressive intentions. Systematic oppression is enforced by the government, laws, and police. The definition of racism is poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race, the belief that some races of people are better than others. So before you go throwing around that different races can't be racist against whites think again.